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English
Etymology
From hand + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
handed (not comparable)
- (in combination) Having a certain kind or number of hands.
- (in combination) Having a peculiar or characteristic hand or way of treating others.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :As poisonous tongued as handed
- (obsolete) With hands joined; hand in hand.
1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:yet now, if any two be but once handed in the Church, and have tasted in any sort the nuptiall bed, let them finde themselves never so mistak’n in their dispositions through any error, concealment, or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts, and constitutions, they can neither be to one another a remedy against lonelines, nor live in any union or contentment all their dayes, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon’d to the least possibility of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomnes and despaire of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God establisht to that very end.
1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Into their inmost bower, / Handed they went.
Derived terms
Translations
having a peculiar or characteristic hand
Verb
handed
- simple past and past participle of hand
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